April 10, 2024
There’s a better predictor of heart disease risk, some doctors and researchers say, but many doctors and patients aren’t talking about apoB
April 10, 2024
Picture a bustling city on a weekday morning, the sidewalks flooded with people rushing to get to work or to appointments. Now imagine this at a microscopic level and you have an idea of what the microbiome looks like inside our bodies, consisting of trillions of microorganisms (also called microbiota or microbes) of thousands of different species.
April 10, 2024
You think of bacteria as something bad that you should avoid. But, turns out, most of the bacteria inside your gut play an important role in keeping you healthy.
April 10, 2024
Your gut microbiome is a microscopic world within the world of your larger body. The trillions of microorganisms that live there affect each other and their environment in various ways.
April 10, 2024
TMAO (or trimethylamine N-oxide) is a metabolite produced by gut bacteria. Briefly, nutrients such as
phosphatidylcholine (also known as lecithin), choline, and L-carnitine are abundant in animal-derived products
such as red meat, egg yolk and full-fat dairy products.
March 4, 2024
For decades, scientists believed the adult brain was immutable – fixed and incapable of change, especially in the face of injury.
March 4, 2024
Over many years, the plaque of cholesterol slowly grows bigger. When it grows large enough that the heart can't get the blood it needs to work hard, the heart cries out in pain — chest pain, a condition called angina.
March 4, 2024
Heart attacks and strokes cause 50 percent of the deaths in North America today, yet many people are not adopting the lifestyle changes needed to prevent the factors that cause them: inflammation and clotting.
March 1, 2024
Despite continuous exposure to environmental pathogens, injured mucosa within the oral cavity heals faster and almost scar free compared with skin.